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What three native American tribes lived in Florida before it was discovered by the Spanish?
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∙ 12y ago
The Seminoles
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∙ 16y agoThe Calusa Indians (kah LOOS ah) lived along the shores of southwest Florida before the Spanish arrived. They numbered close to 50,000 and controlled most of the southern part of the peninsula. The word Calusa means "fierce people," and the Spanish explorers were not greeted by the natives as friends and were sometimes attacked. The Calusa were the first to be included in the Spanish explorers reports about native inhabitants to Spain, in or around the year 1513.
The Calusa ate fish and shellfish, making tools of shells. Accumulated mounds of the discarded shells can still be seen today in local shoreline locations.
The Calusahatchee river, running through the now Ft. Myers area, was the seat of their power. They lasted until the 1700's, when they were overcome by disease, other tribes and European settlers. They had been great sailors and the remaining Calusa are thought to have left Florida for Cuba.
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∙ 12y agoBefore contact with Europeans Florida was home to the Acuera, Apalachicola, Calusa, Caparaz, Chatot, Chiaha, Chilucan, Guacata, Hitchiti, Icafui, Macapiras, Pensacola, Pohoy, Potano, Saturiwa, Tacatacuru, Tocobaga, Timucua and Yustaga tribes, and many other small tribes associated with them
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∙ 7y agoThe Seminole tribes (an offshoot of the Creeks) occupied a large area of Florida before they battled Andrew Jackson in the First Seminole War (1816-1819). They were part of the "Trail of Tears" that resulted from the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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∙ 9y agoThe Seminoles
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